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PaulV blogged the other day about DirectCast and I left a comment asking whether a VB equivalent of C#'s 'as' operator would be relevant.

Transaction.BeginRant()

I haven't written many WebServices so I'm always looking for advice from people that have.  Tonight I had a bit of a chat with Thomas Johansen about how to expose data from a service and I thought that I'd blog it... Oh yeh, I'm "We hates them" :-)

Next time Scott Mitchell tells you that he'd like your ideas for *him* to write an article.... don't believe him - he'll get you to do it! :-P

Allright, enough nerd humour... I saw that Kent blog'ged about a new Msdn blog service for the ASP.NET channel - http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/rss.xml - I hopped on right away and I'm glad that I did as it alerted me to the following, recently published item: Managing Hierarchical Inserts in ASP.NET and ADO.NET.

I've been subscribed to the GotDotNet User Samples feed for several weeks now and it's great because you get to see some really cool tools come in.  I love playing with the new stuff and pulling the code apart to get inspiration for how to implement features on new projects.

I gave my first talk at my local .NET User Group (http://www.adnug.com/) last week on the ASP.NET Starter Kits.  Here's a link to my slide-deck from the night:

http://scottonwriting.net/sowBlog/